CDP Reviews

Leadership philosophy seems to be: 'We support the mission. People? Optional.' Strategic priorities change faster than the seasons, and usually by Monday. Burnout is common, but don’t worry - you can use your generous annual leave to recover from the job you’ll return to. Performance reviews have been “under review” for so long, they might qualify for heritage status. Management presence is mostly symbolic. Decisions are made, then unmade, then handed off to someone who just joined. You’ll hear a lot about impact, values, and transformation. Just not in your day-to-day work.

Chaos. Multiple rounds of restructuring/redundancies. Churn in senior leadership. Massive disconnect between leadership/strategic vision and the delivery teams, Always trying to boil the ocean rather than gradual change. No training budget. No career progression path. No opportunities to provide feedback on managers. Some terrible people managers who are clueless about how to support their staff in a difficult environment. Business outlook is poor, outpaced by better delivering competition and battered by global headwinds.